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Image & Sound in the Information Age. Visual Arts. Diverse styles and techniques Mass Media and Technology for images and material Mixed Media, Performance and Environmental Art. Pop Art. Coined in 1950 Silkscreen, airbrush, & mass production. Claes Oldenburg (b.1929).
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Visual Arts • Diverse styles and techniques • Mass Media and Technology for images and material • Mixed Media, Performance and Environmental Art
Pop Art • Coined in 1950 • Silkscreen, airbrush, & mass production
Geometric Abstraction • Not as ironic • Non-objective • Definition
Op Art • European based art • How you see determines what you see.
Minimalism • Definition • What new elements available?
Photorealism • 1970s • Emphasizes elements that are like a photograph • Also called new realism, or hyperrealism.
Social Conscience Art • Self conscious activist role for artist • Draws attention to various issues • Ecology • Drug-use • Terrorism • Decay of Urban Life • Morals
Kienholz, The State Hospital, 1964-1966, Social Conscience Art
Total Art • Process & conception • Form of communal ritual that involves a planned performance • Performance Art or Happenings
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, 1972-6, Environmental Art
Video Art • Media and its message • Beginnings in 1960s under Nam June Paik • Sound and Image combined